This summer’s Paris Olympics saw an experiment in AI-assisted algorithmic video surveillance. Now French officials say they want to make it permanent, in what experts call a worrying use of invasive and even racially discriminatory technology.
With New York City’s corrupt and conservative mayor under federal indictment, New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani argues that it’s time for the Left to think big.
Brazil’s battle with Elon Musk is just the tip of the iceberg in the struggle between Big Tech and sovereign nations for control of our digital future.
Ukrainian elites have for decades been divided between Westernized professionals and pro-Russian oligarchs, each with a narrow social base. The missing force has been the working class, unable to develop its own distinct project for the country’s future.
Lobbyists are urging the Supreme Court to use upcoming cases to gut consumer protections. The lobbying groups involved are tied to conservative donors who have spent decades working to roll back consumer regulations and environmental protections.
It’s shocking for many of us to learn that forced labor is actually legal as punishment for a crime. Ballot measures in Nevada and California this Election Day would outlaw forced labor in prisons.
As trade tensions rise and industrial policies are reshaped, labor faces critical decisions in a world plagued by economic nationalism and climate change.
Carpet-bombing entire residential blocks, wiping out entire neighborhoods, slaughtering at least 100. It’s another weekend of Israel’s impunity in killing Gazans, this time in Beit Lahiya in the north.
Donald Trump’s separation of children from their families at the border was a centerpiece of his migration policy. Errol Morris’s new documentary, Separated, chronicles the cruel policy during Trump’s first term that would likely return in a second.
Employers take advantage of the fact that few know about DALE, a federal program that protects undocumented workers from retaliation. Helping these workers access their rights is a key step toward organizing some of the US’s most predatory workplaces.
For over a year, the US and UK media have refused to identify Israel’s war as a genocide. Mainstream outlets are only willing to regurgitate their governments’ soft criticisms of Israel, which serve to mask the West’s complicity in the slaughter.
The rise of France’s far right is often blamed on increasing labor precarity. In fact, Marine Le Pen’s party is backed by the parts of the working class most hostile to the values of social solidarity — including in the workplace.